Actress Jennifer Lawrence posed in vintage swimsuits and lingerie for the May issue of GQ magazine to promote her new film X-Men: First Class, an origins story set in the 1960’s and directed by Matthew Vaughn. The 20-year-old stunner plays young Mystique.

Vaughn tells GQ why he hired Lawrence:

There are a lot of young American actors right now who haven’t got any technique. And to be blunt, a lot of these kids assume that just by having a good set of teeth and tits, smiling for the camera’s gonna be enough. I needed someone who could act.

Lawrence, who scored an Oscar nomination for last year’s indie-drama Winter’s Bone, is also set to headline A Bigger Boat’s House at the End of the Street and Lionsgate adaptation of author Suzanne Collins beloved book series Hunger Games.

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Human drug Mickey Rourke plays a downtrodden jazz musician attempting to free a beautiful winged woman from a circus sideshow in Image Entertainment’s upcoming supernatural romance Passion Play. It appears to be a role that the 58-year-old comeback king is none to happy with.

He tells Vulture:

Another terrible movie. But, you know, in your career and all the movies you make, you’re going to make dozens of terrible ones.

Rourke goes on to say that he takes these terrible roles for the money, that Passion Play is getting a limited release because it’s so bad, and explained that his comment about costar Megan Fox being the most talented actress he had ever worked with was simply a backhanded compliment used to illustrate how much more his previous leading ladies sucked donkey balls.

Passion Play will have a limited theatrical run starting on May 6. Home editions will arrive on May 21.

IFC Midnight has released a trailer for Dark Sky Films and Glass Eye Pix’s new vampire-apocalypse thriller Stake Land. Directed by Jim Mickle, the film stars Nick Damici (“The Black Donnellys”), Connor Paolo (“Gossip Girl”), a rough-looking Kelly McGillis (The Innkeepers), and genre fav Danielle Harris (Shiver).

The footage shown in the clip is somewhat confusing in that it seems to suggest that vampires like to kill and devour people. In fact, there isn’t a single bloodsucker in this flick that sparkles, eats vegetarian, and dates high school goth chicks. I just don’t know if people are ready for man-eating vamps.

Stake Land will be in theaters for a limited run on April 22. It’ll be available On-Demand on April 25.

Danielle Harris is part of Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-Fi Today.

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DreamWorks has released a second trailer for director Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens, arriving in theaters on July 29. The new footage reveals some cool alien action and a whole lot of Olivia Wilde (finally).

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Set in the mid 19th century, the sci-fi actioner follows gunslinger Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig), Ella Verity (Wilde), and Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) as they set out to stop an alien race from enslaving humankind.

Cowboys & Aliens costars Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2), Walton Goggins (Predators), Clancy Brown (”LOST”), Abigail Spencer (Haunting in Georgia), Keith Carradine (“Dexter”), Paul Dano (Taking Lives),  Ana de la Reguera (Nacho Libre), and Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers).

The film’s script was written by “LOST” co-creator Damon Lindelof with go-to collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer serve as producers.

20th Century Fox has unleashed the first official trailer for director Rupert Wyatt’s new Planet of the Apes remake. Rise of the Planet of the Apes stars James Franco as Will Rodman, a scientist whose attempt to protect an ape named Caesar from the doctors using him as a test subject in Alzheimer’s research sets the stage for a simian revolution.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes costars the gorgeous Freida Pinto as a primatologist, John Lithgow as Will Rodman’s Alzheimer-stricken father, Tom Felton and Brian Cox as the flick’s heavies, and Andy Serkis as Ceasar. Oscar-winning effects house WETA Digital (Avatar, Lord of the Rings) provides the visual magic.

The film swings into theaters on Aug. 5.

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A short—but gruesome—sales trailer for Screen Media Films sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 2003 slasher The Toolbox Murders has hit the web. Entitled TBK: The Toolbox Murders 2, the film marks the directorial debut of make-up artist Dean C. Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides).

The film’s synopsis reads:

Survivors Nell and Stephen continue their night of hell as they’re rushed to the nearby Hollywood Memorial hospital. Meanwhile next-generation, tech-savvy CSI detectives Cole and Barnes coordinate with hard-nosed LAPD criminal profiler McGavin to exhume TBK’s modern day tomb and uncover its origins, leading toward a shocking revelation involving old Hollywood’s seedy underground and one doctor’s secret past.

TBK: The Toolbox Murders 2 was shot in Los Angeles and stars horror icon Lance Henriksen (Scream of the Banshee), Brian Krause (Camel Spiders), Ethan Phillips (The Island), Mila Brener, Bruce Dern (Choose), sexy up-and-comer Chauntal Lewis (pictured above) and Christopher Doyle, who returns as killer Coffin Baby.

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In response to what has understandably become this year’s hot-button issue, NBC president Robert Greenblatt has announced that former “Friday Night Lights” hottie Adrianne Palicki will, indeed, wear star-spangled booty shorts in their David Kelly-produced reboot of yesteryear’s “Wonder Woman” series.

Greenblatt explains to TVLine:

There was an initial outcry about the long pants – you know, skintight pants as opposed to those little shorts. But the shorts were always planned. They are actually used in the final confrontation when she beats Veronica Cale.

We haven’t made any changes from what was planned. But it’s always good to hear the feedback. I’d rather have people really passionately engaged in conversation, even if they hate something, than be kind of bored.

Greenblatt, you beautiful genius! It all makes sense now. Wonder Woman will wear the shorts while having a sexy cat-fight with Veronica Cale—played by British stunner Elizabeth Hurley—someplace where there’s lots of mud or jello or pillows. It seems so obvious now. Well played.

You also got to hand it to writer/producer Kelly for keeping things real on the page. Wonder Woman is a female superhero. Unlike her male counterparts who don’t think twice about wearing the same spandex tights every night, Wonder Woman is going to have to have some fashion choices.

After all, there will be nights when she’s feeling bloated and unattractive. On those days, she’ll wear the pants. When she’s lost a few pounds or wants to make other heroines jealous, she’ll sport the shorts. If someone has to die on the streets at the hands of some hooligan while she picks out her outfit, so be it.

Bollywood starlet Mallika Sherawat plays a serpent-woman known in Eastern folklore as the Nagin in director Jennifer Lynch’s new creature-feature Hisss. The film was set to introduce Sherawat—considered the Marilyn Monroe of India—to American audiences, but currently finds itself in distribution limbo.

Fortunately, photos from Sherawat’s April FHM India shoot have hit the net. While it’s not the same as watching the 34-year-old stunner shake her hips and/or swallow things whole on film, the spread is hot enough to hypnotize most trouser snakes.

Sherawat’s snake-woman made Clatto’s list of The 11 Sexiest Maneater Babes in Horror & Sc-fi.

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Magnolia Pictures has released a trailer for writer/director Nick Tomnay’s tables-turned psychological thriller The Perfect Host, starring Swimfan’s Clayne Crawford and “Frasier” star David Hyde Pierce in his first horror flick since 1994’s Wolf.

The Perfect Host follows career criminal John Taylor (Crawford) as he takes up residence in the home of Warwick Wilson, a seemingly nice guy prepping a meal for a special dinner party that will leave a very bad taste in his assailant’s mouth.

The film arrives in selected theaters for a limited run on July 1. It will, however, be available nationwide On-Demand on May 27.

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Dimension Films hosted the world premiere for Wes Craven’s much buzzed about sequel Scream 4 last night at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA. Joining Craven on the red carpet were original Scream players Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and everyone’s favorite cougar Courteney Cox.

Also on hand were the franchise’s new stars: Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Kristen Bell, Anna Paquin, Lucy Hale, Mary Shelton, Alison Brie, Marielle Jaffe, Aimee Teegarden, Arielle Kebbel, Adam Brody, Anthony Anderson, and Rory Culkin.

Party crashers included writer/director/actor Eli Roth, Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson, sisters Patricia and Rosanna Arquette, “American Idol” David Cook, Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz, and director Robert Rodriguez and Electra Avellan.

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Written by Scream creator Kevin Williamson, Scream 4 is the start of a new trilogy that aims to frighten audiences while once again poking fun at modern day horror cliches. To date, the series has earned over $500 million in worldwide coin.

Scream 4 arrives in theaters on Friday.

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